In 1990 around 1,450 suicides occurred in Netherlands, 70 less than in 1989. In 1990, on average 4 Dutch committed suicide every day.
Netherlands reported 9.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.95 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Netherlands, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 1,450 recorded suicide cases in 1990, 909 were men suicides and 541 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 12.3 per 100,000 men and for women 7.2 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Netherlands suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 135 homicides in Netherlands, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 10.7 suicides.
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